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Gateway to the Great Outdoors

Milo through a local lens

The town from the air and from the ground, through the seasons, as seen by the photographers who live right here in it. Every one lent their work to the committee for the town's site, on the one condition that each picture carries their name and a link back.

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If you photograph around Milo and would like your work here, write to the committee at hello@visitmilomaine.org.

Aerial view of a village centre in summer: a road bridge and an older mill building over a river running white across rock, with houses and a wide main street beyond. — Downtown Milo in summer, the river breaking white over the rocks below the bridge.Photo: Blaine Chadwick, 3RiversUAS

Aerial view of a river in winter with a large, almost perfect circle of ice turning in the current, surrounded by broken floes and bare grey woods. — A winter ice carousel: a slowly turning disc of river ice, ringed by broken floes.Photo: Blaine Chadwick, 3RiversUAS

Aerial view at sunset over a still river, the sky banded pink, orange and yellow and reflected the length of the water, with a railway bridge in the foreground and houses among trees on both banks. — Sunset over the river at Milo, the banded sky mirrored the length of the water.Photo: Blaine Chadwick, 3RiversUAS

Aerial view of a river winding through unbroken autumn woods at peak colour, with a rail yard and its lines of freight cars in the distance. — The river winding through peak autumn colour, with a rail yard in the distance.Photo: Blaine Chadwick, 3RiversUAS

Black and white photograph of a wooden gazebo with a weathervane, standing in fog among bare trees, with picnic tables on the grass around it. — A gazebo among the picnic tables, standing in a morning fog.Photo: Blaine Chadwick, 3RiversUAS

Aerial view of a veterans memorial on a lawn: the United States flag and a POW-MIA flag on a tall pole, a row of military service flags along a paved walk, and engraved stone monuments and benches. — Milo's veterans memorial, its flags and engraved stones on the lawn.Photo: Blaine Chadwick, 3RiversUAS

Close portrait of a red fox facing the camera, ears up and eyes level, its ruff pale against a blurred green and white background. — A red fox, close enough to meet its eyes.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A young bull moose, antlers still in velvet, feeding on the summer green.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

Northern lights in broad bands of green, magenta and teal filling a starry sky above a still lake, with a dark forested shore across the water and the colour repeated on the surface. — The northern lights over Schoodic Lake, about ten minutes from Milo.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A bald eagle at rest against the trees.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A waterfall dropping in steps down dark wet ledges, framed by ferns, grass and a cedar branch, with a large pale boulder at its foot and the falling water blurred smooth by a long exposure. — A woodland waterfall, running full over dark ledges.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

Northern lights over a calm lake at night, a bright green band low above the treeline under magenta and blue, with a meteor streaking across the upper left and a long dark cloud crossing the sky. — A meteor crossing the aurora over Schoodic Lake.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A black-capped chickadee on a snowy log, Maine's state bird.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A river dam at dusk seen from beside a stone bridge arch, water pouring over the spillway past old timbers, with a brick mill building, streetlights and a railway bridge along the far bank under an orange sky. — The dam at dusk, the bridge arch on one side and the mill lit up on the other.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

Vertical green rays of northern lights rising into a deep purple, heavily starred sky above a lake, with a wooded point on the left, low hills on the right and the green mirrored the length of the still water. — Green rays standing over Schoodic Lake, mirrored end to end in the water.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A spotted fawn lowering its head to drink from a shallow stony stream, standing in tall grass and wildflowers. — A spotted fawn drinking from a stony stream.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A fawn's ears and eyes just showing above a bank of deep snow, looking straight at the camera through bare twigs. — A fawn watching from a bank of deep snow.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

Green and magenta northern lights over a large calm lake at night, reflected in the water, with a silhouetted tree in the left foreground and small shore lights along the far side. — Camp lights along the far shore of Schoodic Lake under the aurora.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A bald eagle in flight seen from the side, one wing arched high and the other low, against heavy grey cloud. — A bald eagle riding a grey sky.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A double rainbow over a river dam, water pouring in a long white sheet over the spillway past old timbers, with bare trees and low buildings along the far bank. — A double rainbow standing over the dam after the rain.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A bright green and pink aurora low over a dark lake at night, mirrored in still water beneath a starry sky. — The aurora low over Schoodic Lake.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A red fox at full stride across open snow, seen from the side with its tail streaming behind it and almost nothing else in the frame. — A red fox at a dead run across open snow.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

Aerial view of a small town under fresh snow, the river running dark through the middle of it past a road bridge, a mill building and rows of houses, with wooded hills to the horizon. — The village under fresh snow, the river still open through the middle of it.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

Pink and green northern lights above a frozen lake in winter, the Milky Way visible overhead, with snowmobile tracks crossing the snow-covered ice in the foreground and a dark treeline and low hill beyond. — Winter on a frozen Schoodic Lake, snowmobile tracks under the northern lights.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A river dam at sunset seen from beside a stone bridge, water falling in a long curved sheet over the spillway, under a sky banded red and orange that is mirrored in the still water above the dam. — Sunset over the dam, the whole sky repeated in the water above it.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A young moose trotting across a paved two-lane road lined with green trees and utility poles, under a heavy grey and white sky. — A young moose crossing a two-lane road.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A teal and green aurora over an open field at night, with a utility pole and wires and a line of silhouetted trees along the left, a long dark cloud across the middle of the sky, and a rounded hill on the horizon. — The northern lights over a field in Brownville, the next town over.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

A cow moose standing over her calf in tall grass at the edge of green woods, her head lowered toward the calf, which stands in front of her looking away. — A cow moose and her calf at the treeline.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

Five young grey squirrels crowded shoulder to shoulder in a gap under the peeling white-painted eaves of a building, all looking out toward the camera. — Five young grey squirrels crowded under peeling eaves.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography

Magenta and green rays of northern lights above a roadside field at night, tall pines silhouetted on the left, a utility pole and wires crossing the frame, and pale streaks in the upper sky. — Aurora over a back road in Brownville.Photo: Michael T. Coons, Elm Street Photography